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You didn't say first 💔
PLEASE do a JFK 1991 FILM REVIEW on it's LAW ACCURACY.
Night Court. I like when you react to television.
There was a really interesting legal story in the the superhero comic book Astro City that I think it might be interesting to see you react to. The main character of this storyline is a defense lawyer whose client committed murder in front of twenty-one eyewitnesses, and the lawyer has to come up with a really clever way to beat these charges. One nice thing about this story is that the lawyer is unambiguously portrayed as doing the right thing even though he's helping a guy get away with murder since, well, that's his job.
Next reaction: "The Lincoln Lawyer"? I found it pretty accurate (not that I know much) but it was fun to watch anyway....
We laugh, but the fact that the *financial cost* of seeking justice is the reason so many people drop things is horrifying.
yep, it's not really a right when only the wealthy can afford it.
Yea, a youtuber i know whos called karl jobst got involved in a lawsuit when he posted evidence of a speed runner that allegedly cheated (i better use those words properly or ill get sued too i imagine), and the speed runner of course sued him and took him to a court of law and the defense costs like several 100s of thousands of dollars, and he had to seek donations online to get help with it.
Yeah I gotta say that part felt a tad out of touch too. People don't drop these suits when they see the price tag because they're suddenly willing to let bygones be bygones out of not wanting to spend the money....more often they CANT spend the money
Which is also why the rich will never be punished in our judicial system. The rich can afford to pay th2 cost to defend against the harms they caused, while those harmed can not afford to pay the costs necessary to recuperate for the harms impossed on them.
@@faizanahmad7730 tell me about it, I lost everything after an 8 year legal battle, through no fault of mine! I ran out of money and the courts dismissed my case due to the delays! I have been devastated since!
As I have learned from watching many of your videos, the correct legal response to whether or not lawyers have feelings is, "It depends."
This is a very good comment.
@@danielbeshers1689 Agreed. :)
And with that, a catastrophic injury attorney stopped... Felt a chill... And then started into the horizon.
Lols, therapists too.
Sounds like me Commercial/Merchant Law professors who say you practically have to shut off your feelings because of all of the embargos you have to carry out
This couple is on their way to their wedding when they get in a fatal car wreck and find themselves at the pearly gates. While they're waiting to be processed they start to wonder if they can get married in heaven.
Finally they get up to St. Peter and they ask him.
St. Peter says, "I don't know. Let me go check on something."
The couple is left there waiting. They're waiting and waiting and two months go by. With nothing else to do they start to wonder if things don't work out, can they get divorced in Heaven too.
Another month goes by and finally St. Peter shows up. He's looking a little disheveled and tired, but he's got a big smile on his face and he tells them, "I have good news for you. You can get married."
The couple replies,"that's great, but we have another question. If things go bad, can we get divorced in Heaven too?"
St. Peter's smile drops, he throws his clipboard onto the ground and shouts at them, "It took me three months to find a priest up here. Do you know how long it's going to take for me to find a lawyer!"
Oh Wow, I didn't know this one yet - thanks for the laugh!
That is freaking hilarious!
Fantastic. Just amazing. 10/10 joke.
Gotta tell this one to a lawyer buddy of mine, that's great
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Devon: Tells a highly specific "hypothetical" nightmare scenario.
Also Devon: That's never happened to ME, but I see how that could be stressful.
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Those were VERY specific details lol
Do you not sometimes wake up in a cold sweat after having a highly specific nightmare that could be real, but isn't? Sometimes when I get those, it takes a few minutes for me to remember the difference between dreams and reality. One time in senior year, I had a stress dream that I overslept and missed my finals. When I woke up, I put clothes on, grabbed a pen and some scrap paper, said a prayer that the exam would be easy enough that I could get a C even though I didn't study, and then ran out my door, only to realize that it was 3 in the morning and finals were in 3 months and also I didn't have any final exams this semester, only term papers.
😆
/r/suspiciouslyspecific
@@michaele1654 I've had specific nightmares that made up specific nightmares for themselves, like I'll be dreaming of this horrible situation and remember it as worse than this other thing that also never happened. Then I wake up, and I don't remember any of those "memories" I had in the dream, just whatever ridiculousness was going on in the last bit before I woke up.
As a computer programmer, I can relate to googling on the job. We read it carefully, understand it and test it, but I'd be damned if I had to reinvent the wheel 30x/week.
I took a legal research class in my second year, and we had a one day class on "free legal resources," and, the first thing the professor said was "Google is the first thing to turn to. No need to pay until after you've checked for free," and, that advice has saved me a lot of effort over the years.
And saved your clients a lot of money, too!
When I found _United States Reports_ on the Library of Congress website I pogged
for me, it was learning that Google Scholar has case law. May lack some of the bells and whistles of West and Lexis, but, it’s free and I can usually find the cases I need
It might interest people to know that the run of Daredevil written by Charles Soule (not currently a lawyer, but did pass the bar) involves Daredevil testifying in a court case in costume and takes it all the way to the Supreme Court to create a precedent for superhero vigilantes to testify in legal cases without revealing their civilian identities.
That shouldn't be allowed. Knowing their civilian identities might be necessary in order for the opposing attorney to identify a legitimate reason to discount their testimony, such as a motive for lying that is based in their civilian identity. If you're going to have a secret identity, in a society with a decent legal system, you have to accept that your secrecy prevents prosecution of some wrongdoers.
She-Hulk used a variation on that idea for the civil case fought between Jennifer Walters and Matt Murdoch.
@@jameskuyper The law has a way of changing when it absolutely has to, and in a world of super villains they'd be pretty much forced to allow masked vigilantes several rights we don't give them in real life because the alternative would be the destruction of modern society.
Today I learned a distant relative of mine wrote for daredevil
@@andrewscott7728 I'm having a hard time seeing how that would actually work in practice. There isn't a whole lot stopping someone from putting on a costume and imitating a given hero, and if need be some SV's are capable of at least temporarily replicating a given hero's powers/skills to "prove" they're them. Unless heroes have... I don't know, some form of ID that's extremely hard to replicate. But in worlds like DC or Marvel where people have access to magic and extremely advanced tech of all kinds It's difficult to see that working for long if at all.
My favorite part of "I'm not a cat" is still that the lawyer sounds so genuinely concerned that people might think he actually was a cat.
Others have already said it, I feel the need to say it again, the *cost* of legal battles creating an access to justice problem is incredibly sad and I think it creates terrible injustice. If you're fighting something that's wrong and it needs to go all the way to the top you *should* be able to take it there without being fabulously wealthy.
In the Uk we have a Legal Aid programme that
" can help meet the costs of legal advice and representation in a court or tribunal"
You have to show that you can't afford to pay, and may have to pay some costs back later...
America seems to be run like a for-profit business.
in a lot of other places, the party that loses pays both parties' legal fees. That's not the only thing wrong with America but it's the easiest to fix
A number of countries have universal right to counsel. There is a small but real group advocating for this in the united states
Especially considering that injustice disproportionately affects the poor… Almost by definition, one could argue…
@@smkh2890 Bingo, sometimes I Think American Justice IS a for profit business. Bad but true example, judges assuring that low risk suspects go to a 'for profit' prison run by related entities that DO make a profit off the 'free labor'.
The cat filter for court reminded me of an old article from some small town newspaper (I can't remember which town) which told the story of how a lawyer went into court and opened his briefcase only to find that his cat had gotten in before he closed it and tore up some of the documents inside before the poor fellow opened it in the courtroom and the cat hopped out and was somewhat angry.
The googling thing is real for many professions. I had a customer bring me his car even though I'm more about heavy equipment. The first thing I did was Google the symptoms for that make & model. The first result gave me the answer for what would have been a long, drawn-out day of troubleshooting. The knowledge is out there, folks. Use it.
Half of IT runs on the "google it" strategy. Someone *SOMEWHERE* has already debugged that or figured out which wires go where, or knows which of the ports you can't read the label on is the iLO port.
Devin talking about how getting something wrong in a legal doc will keep you up at night with nightmares and then in the very next comic say "I resemble that" instead of "I resent that" had me dying more than any of these comics😂
Holy crap that first comic put into words what I've been thinking all these years.
Sometimes it must be nice to have a job with clear instructions
Autism moment. I cannot FUNCTION without clear instructions.
Ambiguity pays better
@@stinew358 Some people would gladly accept less pay in exchange for having some clarity in their work life.
I gave up on trying to make something of myself in academia and became a gardener instead.
It's such a sweet life. Super chill and you get regular exercise.
@@Yora21Same here! It doesn't pay a ton, and there can be some rough days, but I finally feel content. I love being outside with plants instead of inside with customers.
I saw some PTSD in his eyes when he was bringing up scenarios about not being prepared.
That crow (raven?) comic was adorable! Thank you for this episode ; it was a lot of fun!
Oglaf and Legal Eagle, not a combination I was expecting today, or any day really
@@mattjames6847 And SMBC. Was good to see-if only he'd shared links back to the comics instead of just using them.
It should be noted that, while this Oglaf comic was fine, MOST of them are definitely NSFW.
@@marsilies and importantly to the unknowing, they are *NSFW* even if your work has *very* relaxed boundaries there, I'm not sure all of them are safe for work in porn.
@@marsilies i don't know they can be fine if your job happens to be an OF model lol... in which case they can even be educational lol
When I started at my big law firm, no one told me that by default they had turned off the automatic spell check (red lines under words) as the older lawyers didn't like it. So I submitted something to a partner, and 10 minutes later he calls me into his office and he's circling stuff with a red pen, then tosses it at me.
I remember one of my first contracts… Partner comes in, throws it on my desk, says clients is paying $20k for this, and this is shit… Felt like an idiot and wanted to quit, the smallest error was identified, entire sections stricken… A couple decades later, I think how such rigorous review from old school partners were make or break; and, truly valuable to my career even though I changed to tax law and eventually quit practicing a few years ago as I became burnt out…
Did you point out it's on them for having spell check off? Cuz we're only human… I've literally looked through fanfiction stories I've published on Wattpad or ffn and didn't even realize there were spelling errors in them because I forgot to have spell check on when writing, and the sentence flowed naturally in my head that I never caught it till after its publishing.
"Many cases end in bankruptcy" and that is why the legal system favors the rich and you see so many innocent poor people in jail or prison.
Hutz: "Mr. Burns, we've got witnesses, precedent, and a paper trail a mile long!"
Burns: "Yes, well I have ten high-priced lawyers."
Hutz: *runs away screaming*
Did not expect an Oglaf comic to show up in this. 🤣
A surprisingly clean one, at that!
Not a lawyer, but I once had a supervisor who had me do five drafts of a 27 page document, after draft 2, re-correcting the grammar and syntaxt back to the original version. After draft 5, I gave up and filed all five drafts in the file, with flags indicating the red edit marks and changes, as it was obvious it was going nowhere, she wasn't going to sign the document.
9:23 Yeap! I grew up with teachers telling "you can't trust wikipedia!!", but both during my bachelor and in my master program _literally everyone_ in class would start by looking things up on wikipedia. I studied cognitive neuropsychology and philosophy, and for the most part English speaking Wikipedia has great overview articles on a lot of topics in science and philosophy. Yeah it's not of the same scientific rigor as all the other knowledge databases, but it's SO much easier to read a lot of the time as it's usually a condensed version to get you started (Oxford dictionary of philosophy, looking at you). Sometimes you just want to know what a term means, and surface level information is usually sufficient. For example, if I had read the word "electromyography" today I'd feel I wanted to look it up to be up to speed, Wiki has a great overview article (but usually just a bit of skimming is enough to get the gist of it -- which is usually all you need if you're not writing about it). If you're going to write about the subject you still start there _and then_ go on to Google Scholar.
Exactly. And if you want to check, they always post sources for the articles and facts and if there are not enough, there's usually a warning on top of the article that it doesn't have enough proof.
fwiw, Wikipedia is much more moderated now than it was in the early days where the initial distrust came from.
And now there are Ai bots that summarise the research in seconds
heck, even in my early undergrad we were being told that. By the time I got to my capstone courses in my subject, all the professors admitted that was the best place to start anyway.
Granted, now I work in a field where my actual degree doesn't ever come into play. Other than that I can research VERY well.
not to mention chatgpt !
The inability to take a case to trial when someone has a legitimate case because of financial limitations is a real problem in America. If you can outspend the opposition, you create a system where corporations and billionaires are effectively above the law.
Also, I see a lot of people on really long lunch breaks around the Navy Yard in DC. I guess govt work is a little looser on the schedule stuff than law firms.
Props to the editors on this video!
That was STUNNING and must have taken a TON of work, nice job guys!
Yeah, came here to say that. Really liked the Star Wars scroll!
@Глеб Сальманов still, outtakes (bloopers) would be fun.
1000kg of work... I did not realize you could measure effort in mass without knowing the velocity
Shame they didn't credit or link the creators of the comics. Nice job, but shitty move.
14:50 You can definitely tell the panicked realization that he forgot to record the sponsorship; got ready and got in front of the camera with bed head and the environment a lot darker. Love your videos, you're awesome!
4:15 - I didn't watch that South Park episode, but I've had this argument made to me in real life. I worked at an internet service provider (back when those were still things) and our contract was that cancellation requests had to be provided in writing.* One customer called to cancel and when he was told this, his response was "I didn't read that, so it doesn't apply to me."
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(*for anyone wondering, this was not done to make it harder on people trying to cancel. It was done to prevent, say, an angry spouse from cancelling service and then blaming us for a "mistake." It was pure CYA.)
You work for bad company because that is BS.
Anyone know what's the title of that episode? Or what season and episode?
Only lawyers say “Besmirch”
MY MOM USED TO SAY BESMIRCH WE LEARNED THE MOST SNOOTY UPTIGHT WORDS FROM HER SESQUIPEDALIAN AND WE CAN'T WATCH THIS ON TV BECAUSE EVERYTHING IS SO SALACIOUS 😎 SHE WAS THE BEST MOM MISS HER EVERYDAY 💞💔
Don’t forget words like propound and deponent. 😊😊
Medieval knights said it all the time
I am no lawyer! How dare you besmirch my vernacular!
@@spencerdokes6056 I think the term Esquire came from medieval knights. Maybe Lawyers are the modern equivalent
The lawyer that stomped out of the courtroom and yelled at us (members of the jury that hadn't left the building yet) "I hope you're happy, now he gets nothing!!" seemed to be wearing his heart on his sleeve :) Love your stuff!
I'm not a lawyer, and even I feel the googling comic. There are a ton of people out there who have shared the answers to my professional problems for free, and I cannot thank them enough for their help.
Not in the IT business (maybe I should be) but I do help family and friends out with tech and more often than not the solution can be found through a web search. The trick is knowing what to search for (which in some ways is actually harder now that search engines try to be smarter).
The ability to google things - use the correct search terms, sift out irrelevant results, follow up on promising ones, and apply the data you find - is an incredibly useful skill in just about any modern profession.
Such an underrated skill
As someone who works primarily on weekends, it feels so weird to get lunch on a weekday. Glad to know I'm making lawyers jealous 😎
I'm a legal assistant and was leaving the firm I worked at to move out of province and had asked my lawyer for a reference letter. He asked me to make up a draft, which I did. That was the letter that he ended up signing, with no edits at all. So the joke about the draft made perfect sense to me lol
I'm pretty sure it is the legal profession falling back on a traditional meaning of the word "draft". When you draft a contract or other legal paperwork, it meant to physically write out a copy of it ready to sign, just like in the comic. Making multiple drafts meant making multiple identical copies of the same document.
The editing in this video is absolutely impressive not only the comic layout throughout but also the Star Wars scroll at the end. Big props for that 👌
Yeah, I was going to make that exact comment. Whatever Devin's paying his editors, it isn't enough!
"TV lawyers are never writing briefs or doing research."
DUH, that's what they have interns for.
That first comic is me, with teaching. My family thinks I’m insane when I say “I kinda want to quit and go work in some basic office, typing the same things into a computer all day.” They tell me I’ll be bored, that it isn’t as emotionally fulfilling as teaching is, etc.
But I’d have clear instructions, I wouldn’t have as much pressure, and for once my job wouldn’t be the most important thing in my life or thing about my personality. I’d give a lot for that, at this point.
I would kill for a job with clear instructions. Can't find them though. Seems like they've all been rolled into multi-tasking jobs where you're really doing five jobs and things aren't actually clear.
It’s a tough catch-22 because the clearest instructions accompany the most boring jobs almost by definition. Bit of a toss-up!
Just remembered comic strip where during baseball game, a lawyer approaches the umpire at home plate and states his client (the pitcher) argues that last throw was a strike.
12:30 I make a distinction between a working draft (unfinished and in-progress) and a draft (complete and ready for review)
That 'bird comic' really did capture the horrors of public defenders and what they constantly go through. That is not a joke, PD really go through a lot.
Darth Maul was acting in self defence.
He was standing his ground in the hangar when two fanatics attacked him based on his religion. He repeatedly attempted to retreat yet they doggedly perused him until he was finally cornered and he was left with no recourse but to defend himself with deadly force.
It helped Maul's case that he happened to survive being divided by two via lightsaber and was thus able to testify on his side of the events.
Doggedly perused him? So they aggressively checked him out? Sounds more like sexual harassment...
Objection! While it doesn't make the Jedi's actions of vigilante revenge right, Darth Maul did previously attack Qui-Gon unprovoked until the Jedi was able to safely retreat.
@@kyuubinaruto17 Darth Maul was opposed to human trafficking.
@@lich109I question the relevance of this in regards to the crime at hand
The comic @7:07 is currently relatable in germany. Some kinds of ecstasy have been made legal, cause in the law they‘ve written a - instead of a , and in turn turning a listing of chemical compounds into a combination, excluding the single compound versions
"I demand justice!" "I saw your car in the parking lot. Believe me, you can't afford it."
Gotta love words with multiple meanings dependent upon context; "I'll draft this up" = produce a complete document vs. "Here's my first draft" = a rough outline of a document, or "We've tested this hypothesis and have a working theory" = a well proven set of data vs. "Hey man, I have this theory" = a wild ass guess based on anecdote at best XD
Hey legal eagle, my grandson sent me a very funny orange cat comic, which reminds me of working as in house counsel for a municipality. In it, orange cat says "there's nothing happening," and then the man comes in and says "I finally got the wild fire in my sock drawer under control!" To which orange cat replies "out of the ordinary I mean." Maybe you could review this Alexa call the pharmacy for Lipitor.
r/AlzheimersGroup moment
5:12 Fun fact: In Spain, if you try to fraudulently use any law (like laws against discrimination) in order to avoid penalties, it's called "fraude de ley" (fraud of law) and the result is that you will get the penalties you would have received anyways.
As a non-lawyer who is responsible for reviewing contracts for other reasons you would be suprised how often companies offering a service just "forget" to offer the service in the contract.
Berkeley Breathed ("Bloom County", "Outland", etc) had a lot of good lawyer jokes
Some suggestions:
- The Smosh Courtroom series would be funny to see you react to just for how ridiculous it is.
- Courtroom scenes from Star Trek would be fun, such as the defense of Worf in Rules of Engagement
- Steven Universe's The Trial. Basically a courtroom scene where the judges are almighty dictators
8:00 I just imagine Christopher Plummer saying "Tickle us, do we not laugh? Prick us, do we not bleed? Wrong us, shall we not revenge?" Which is perfect because General Chang was a prosecutor, after all...
That example of not waking up in time for court definitely sounded a little too specific for it to not have happened to you 😂
The comma thing is something that gives us historians nightmares, too, but for different reasons.
Every time someone asks me where I go to look up historical information, I always admit I start at Google, and for the same reason. I love seeing their reaction. Obviously, there are things that you won't find online. That's just life. But Google searches have always been good starting points for me. And Wikipedia. STARTING POINTS. Don't end your search there.
Wikipedia is great for getting a summary of the sources on a topic. People often misunderstand this, but Wikipedia doesn't allow original research, which means they should never be a source on anything. But that doesn't mean it's not useful, because it's very useful to have a summary of the relevant sources.
Quoth the cross-examining raven: "Just a few questions, your honor"
I never thought I'd see the day in which Legal Eagle reacted to an Oglaf comic. Priceless.
5:31 "Day-to-day super boring... Suuuuper boring"
Sadly there really isn't much in life that isn't that way.
You're right about the injustice at 4:50. The defendant should be entitled to an advocat.
(I'll see myself out)
Me: notices the Star Wars scroll starting at the end preparing to write a comment about Disney initiating a cease and desist.
Also Me: notices the scroll speed, yellow font, and text font are just slightly different. Well played editors…well played.
Fair use (parody) (also, in this case, failure to defend this use of scroll under copyright (see: "Spaceballs")).
5:01 Objection! Comic as written is stating that counsel is attempting to confuse the jury by appealing to intent rather than wording. Counsel in hypothetical is effectively arguing jury nullification in an attempt to bypass the judge as trier of the law. That objection would be valid, because as you pointed out, counsel should not be trying to sway the jury with questions of legal intent.
When he was talking about being unprepared, it reminds me of Judge Judy when defendants would show up without any evidence.
“Your honor, I paid him back every dime I owed him.”
“Well, I don’t see any papers on your desk. So how are you going to prove you paid him?”
“I paid with a check.”
“That’s fine, show me a copy of the check. Or a bank statement.”
“I don’t have that.”
“Well, where did you think you were coming to today? The beach?”
5:41
I feel like "Better Call Saul" hit this particular nail right on the head and seriously dampened my desire to attend law school.
9:40 this is a real tangible problem with our legal system. So many super valid suites just get dropped over the exorbitant price tag of litigation, and nothing changes.
7:52 “I resemble that remark” lol I think you misspoke here.
i thought i was hearing things 😅
When Devin was talking about TV lawyers showing up at cases with no research and no preparation, it occurred to me to suggest he do a Real Lawyer Reacts to Amazon Prime's _Goliath,_ with Billy Bob Thornton. IANAL, but that show always struck me as more realistic than most of its breed (even given how much of a wildcard lawyer Thornton's character is). Plus it's just fantastic, dramatically speaking, and worth featuring.
BTW, I guess it's not exactly a hot property, but I was kinda expecting a reaction here to the O.G. law-based comic strip, _Judge Parker._ 🤔
The Good Fight and The Good Wife are pretty good at showing the paperwork involved, though for obvious reasons the shows don't inundate the viewers with Diane going through files in a montage sequence, but frequently we see her sat alone in her office at 10pm poring over some brief for a case she's demonstrably been working on for months. They keep the timelines somewhat realistic and use little reminders to the viewer that time is passing in this way and the lawyers are very busy and have a loooooot of paperwork for each looooooong case. I appreciated that as a viewer with a casual interest in the law
A missing gramma point in the visitation agreement for my daughter’s abuser ruined her life. He was supposed to have supervised access on all occasions and all locations, with some special extra visitations/access during holidays. Instead because the type up was missing some punctuation, he took it to mean that during school holidays he could tell his supervisors to piss off. The “independent hand over group” refused to “interpret” the orders (even when I showed them my copy of the original hand written ones that showed everything clearly listed). I could not afford another $50 K to take him back to court to “clarify” everything again. My daughter is almost 21 and is still needing counseling over the impact his abuse has had on her. The lawyers didn’t just scam over $50 K out of me, they were complicit in endangering her and refusing to listen to her. Thankfully now she is old enough she can make her own decisions. She still has nightmares about him.
The quality of the video especially the transition is excellent!
My favorite part of the meme at 2:10 is that they are gathering up leaves as if they were case files.
The opening laugh is just amazing!
So true - I don’t want to hear from my lawyer, “you can’t do that”. I want to hear, “here is how you can do what you want without getting into trouble”
You want a corporate lawyer.
1st part of "without getting into trouble" is to not get caught
@@matthewparker9276 Yep, that is what I have. Corporate lawyers rule. LOL.
@@alltheusernameswastaken8936 Yeah, I don’t want to get into trouble even if I do get caught - that is the key. Be barely on the legal side but still do what you want.
Devon talking about the "I thought what I did was illegal until my lawyer straightened me out" comic reminded me of the scene in Liar Liar where the Gretta tells Fletcher one of his clients is on the phone calling from prison after "knocking over another ATM... this time at knife point; and he wants your legal advice..." and Fletcher grabs the phone and yells into it "STOP BREAKING THE LAW ASSHOLE!"
I usually at least skim through the terms and conditions of apps and games. In my experience, it's usually just boiler-plate "do not copy this software", "do not use this software to break the law", and so on.
I love the hidden jokes about the video editor BTW, Devin, you have a really good one, maybe you should credit her or him sometime.
Thank goodness you added the correction about the jedi death - I was about to post a strong objection!!
5:25 Devin briefly remembers nullification, but forgets before he can speak again.
I got an ad for a law firm, and I thought it was part of the video. 🤣
Having watched this on Nebula, I would like to confirm that as many times as Devon has claimed that he is not going to stand for it, he actually is sitting throughout the video.
Great content, as always!! I'd love to see you react to the episode of Family Matters where Steve Urkel sues Carl Winslow for stepping on his expensive bug. Yep. That's the story but it's absolutely hilarious and I'd love your take on it.
6:05 let’s not forget those shows where the defense attorneys asks to dismiss, the DA says no, and the attorney wips out a motion on it from the pocket inside his suit jacket.
This was a well done video counsel Devin 👍 lots of love for your channel from Uganda 🇺🇬
I just want to say that legal comics are way better than illegal comics. Those are dangerous.
You need a contract lawyer to play Yu-gi-oh on this channel. Some of the card effects are literal paragraphs specifically written to do a particular effect.
Oh wow, some of this is relatable even if not a lawyer. Like, I've definitely pulled the "I will get it done by the end of the day" card during an internship as a software developer. Except the software was being tested during the night on the other side of the globe, so I actually couldn't give it at 8am on the next day 😅
OMG, this is the best yet. The editing and graphics are top tier!
I just realized somebody is going to find Oglaf after seeing this video and be completely unprepared for what's in store.
2:10 This webcomic is NSFW at least half the time so it's pretty funny to see Legal Eagle reacting to it at all. XD
The crow late for court made me HOWL!🤣
Great video concept - thanks1
I like the expression that you had when you said, "just google it," because it's the same expression that I use when I tell students and clients, "just trace it."
Always a good day when Legal Eagle posts a video
Love SMBC, glad to see Zach represented here!
8:55 In Spain there are many lawyers that go all in and use pre-made templates.
I love dad puns so much, love that "I said paralegals" for the drawing.
The video editing was spot on! You can tell a lot of work went into it. Congrats to the editors!
I often wonder how good a lawyer Devin is, or if he does it at all. Most content creators here do it as a full time job, and making a video takes the whole week to research, shoot, and edit. If he's doing this when does he have time to lawyer? Devin do you sleep?
And - we've never seen the LockPickingLawyer's face, either - maybe it's just Devin with slightly adjusted voice? :D
Devin is really Dr Mike in an Indochino suit
Recently discovered a new podcast called Super Suits, that follows a law firm in a world where super-powered heroes/villains and sidekicks exist. Seems like a great "Real Lawyer Reacts ..." episode. Or at least something you'd get a kick out of.
Hahahahahaha, LegalEagle talking about the human centipad episode is priceless.
Devin: [Incredibly detailed 'hypothetical' about incorrectly setting alarm clock]
Also Devin: "But, that's never happened to me, of course."
Me (thinking): "I'm gonna destroy this witness on cross-examination." 😹
(Disclaimer: I'm not at all a lawyer but it felt like the lawyer-y joke to make here so do with it what you will. XD )
Haven't started the video yet...I'm hoping for The Far Side
Edit: WOOOOO!! THE CAT CHASER COMIC!
My main takeaway from this is that there’s a whole lot in common about being a grad student and a law firm associate. I once anticipated what my advisor would want and sent him an unprompted draft of an outline for an experimental procedure. In response I got a “please fix” email, and chastised for not following his instructions properly.
He didn’t ask for this outline in the first place, let alone give me instructions on how to do it.
Googling a subject is great for the broad scope of the question and seeing what the common person might bring up or see what the common ideas are floating around people.
It can be a great launching off point.
You need to react to the TV show Trial and Error. One season showed the entire process (discovery) of a certain case.
In my experience knowing the right thing to google is one of the most defining traits for any professional
Thanks for reading the captions for those who are having trouble seeing them, That's great!
3:00 Sounds like a good argument for using the 24-hour clock.
Love the editing in this video. : )